At the time of the adoption of this chapter, the city has classified the users according to EPA guidelines. The city shall annually perform tests to determine that each user class is producing its proportionate share of the total annual revenues required to operate the sewage system. User classes are as follows.
(A) Residential. Includes all dwelling units including detached, semi-detached, and row houses, mobile homes, garden and standard apartments, and permanent multi-family dwellings. Transient lodging, considered commercial in nature, is not included.
(B) Commercial. Includes transient lodging, retail and wholesale establishments or places engaged in selling merchandise for personal, household or industrial consumption, or rendering services to others.
(C) Institutional. Includes social, charitable, religious, and educational activities such as schools, churches, hospitals, nursing homes, penal institutions, and similar institutional users.
(D) Governmental. Includes legislative, judicial, administrative, and regulatory activities of federal, state and local governments, such as courthouses, police and fire stations, city halls, and similar governmental users.
(E) Industrial. Includes manufacturing activities involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials and substances into other products. These activities occur in establishments usually described as plants, factories, or mills and characteristically use power driven machines and material handling equipment.
(Ord. CO-80-19, passed 11-24-80)